Dubai Municipality celebrates Earth Day 2018 with a Guinness World Record attemptDubai Municipality celebrated World Earth Day 2018 by creating a Guinness World Record forming the longest line of plastic bottles using 58,447 used bottles collected from the community on an area of 522 square meters along a line of 3842.5 meters. The Guinness World Record attempt was done by the Environment Department or Dubai Municipality in partnership with Oasis Water.
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Dubai Municipality celebrates World Heritage DayThe Architectural Heritage Department of Dubai Municipality has joined the World Heritage Day celebrations of UNESCO, observed on 18th of April every year. The Municipality, which has extended the activities until Friday, April 20, has organized various heritage events at the Mercato Mall as part of its annual program to promote heritage awareness and preserve the popular heritage of the UAE.
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Dubai creates more Emerging LeadersEmerging Leaders Awards 2018 was organised by UAE’s leading daily Khaleej Times and was attended by 300 business executives from a wide cross-section of industries.
The Emerging Leaders Award’s ‘Services’ category recognises Samana Group’s diversified services that include Business Management, Immigration Services and Real Estate Investment and Development - with highly professional approach to i...

Pound's strong run continues with push above $1.43The pound has continued its recent strong run against the dollar pushing firmly above $1.43.
It is the seventh session in a row that the pound has made gains against the US currency.
The strong run means that, among the G10 group of rich nations, the UK has the best-performing currency this year.
Traders say the prospect of higher UK interest rates has made the pound more attractive while...

Google should not be in business of war, say employeesThousands of Google employees have signed an open letter asking the internet giant to stop working on a project for the US military.
Project Maven involves using artificial intelligence to improve the precision of military drone strikes.
Employees fear Google's involvement will "irreparably damage" its brand.
"We believe that Google should not be in the business of war," says the letter, ...

EU and six other countries exempted from US metals tariffsA senior US official has said that the European Union (EU) and six other countries will be exempt from steel and aluminium tariffs announced by President Trump, at least temporarily.
Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told a Senate panel that Mr Trump had decided to "pause" the import duties while further discussions took place.
The tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium are due to...